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THE name of Mr. HENRY MARTYN, although he was not far advanced in years, and was of no long standing in the church of Christ, is well known throughout the dominions of Christianity, and deservedly esteemed by every sincere follower of a crucified Saviour. Hence, the events that were connected with his personal history, have rendered his biography peculiarly interesting, while his death awakens our sympathy, and furnishes an occasion for sincere regret. Nearly two years have elapsed, since we formed a resolution of giving, in the pages of the Imperial Magazine, a biographical sketch of this distinguished individual, but our inability to procure his portrait deterred us from our purpose. Applications for this end were made to various quarters, but without success; and when one was at length obtained, on submitting it to the inspection of those to whom Mr. Martyn was personally known, it was found to contain an unfaithful representation. Renewing our researches, another was at length procured, which, in some particulars, was found to be deficient; and it is only by combining the features which both contained, that we have been able to give satisfaction to his friends, whom on this occasion we have consulted. Having secured this desirable object, we now proceed to accompany it with that memoir which we have so long had in contemplation, Mr. Henry Martyn was born at Truro, in the county of Cornwall, on February 18, 1781, and appears, with his family in general, to have inherited a weak constitution; as, of many children, four only, two sons and two daughters, survived their father, Mr. John Martyn, and all of them, within a short period, followed him to the grave. Of these, Henry was the third. No. 64.-VOL, VI. [1824. His father was originally in a very humble situation of life, having been a labourer in the mines of Gwenap, the place of his nativity. Having no education but such as a country reading school afforded, he was compelled, for his daily support, to engage in an employment, which, dreary and unhealthy as it was, offered some advantages, of which he most meritoriously availed himself. The miners are in the habit of working, sometimes six, and sometimes eight hours, and of enjoying leisure the remaining portions of the twenty-four. These periods of relaxation from manual labour, to their honour be it spoken, many among them devote to mental improvement, and its beneficial influence has so far improved their general character, that they need fear no comparison with men in the same humble walks of life, throughout his majesty's domiions. In these intervals of cessation from toil, John Martyn acquired a complete knowledge of arithmetic, and some acquaintance also with mathematics; and no sooner had he gathered these valuable and substantial fruits of persevering diligence, in a soil most unfriendly to their growth, than he was raised from a state of poverty and depression, to one of comparative ease and comfort. Admitted into the office of Mr. Daniel, a merchant of Truro,' he lived there as chief clerk, piously and respectably, enjoying consider[ably more than a competency. At the grammar school in this town, the master of which was the Rev. Cornelius Cardew, D. D. a gentleman of learning and talents, Henry was placed by his father, at Midsummer 1788, being then between seven and eight years of age. At this seminary of learning, under the same excellent tuition, Henry remained till he was between fourteen and fifteen; at which period he was induced to offer himself as a candidate for a vacant scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, but was not elected. After this repulse U the best Latin prose composition in the university. But with such exer tions he became dissatisfied, and resolved to devote his future life to the service of God, as a CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY, in connexion with the Church Missionary Society. he returned home, and continued to attend Dr. Cardew's school till June 1797. His residence at St. John's College, where his name had been previously entered in the summer, commenced in the month of October 1797. The tenor of Henry Martyn's life, during this and the succeeding year he passed at college, was, to the eye of the world, in the highest degree amiable and commendable. He was outwardly moral; with little exception, was unwearied in application, and exhibited marks of no ordinary talent. | But whatever may have been his external conduct, and whatever his capacity in literary pursuits, he seems to have been totally ignorant of spiritual things, and to have lived "with-causest to approach unto thee, that out God in the world." "At length, however, it pleased God to convince Henry, by a most affecting visitation of his providence, that there was a knowledge far more important to him than any human science; and that, whilst contemplating the heavens by the light of astronomy, he should devote himself to His service, who having made those heavens, did, in his nature, pass through them as his mediator and advocate. But his conversion did not improperly interfere with his literary pursuits. His decided superiority in mathematics, therefore, soon appeared; and the highest academical honour was adjudged him in January, 1801, a period when he had not completed the twentieth year of his age. He soon after visited Cornwall, but returning to Cambridge in the summer of this year, he passed the season of vacation most profitably; and constrained happily to be much alone, he employed his solitary hours in frequent communion with his own heart, and with that gracious God, who once blessed Isaac and Nathaniel in their secret devotions, and who did not withhold a blessing from his. He now determined to enter on the work of the Christian ministry. From this time, to that of proposing himself for admission to a fellowship in his college, Mr. Martyn's engagements consisted chiefly in instructing some pupils, and preparing himself for the examination, which was to take place previous to the election in the month of March, 1802, when he was chosen fellow of St. John's. Soon after wards, he obtained the first prize for Having attained to a degree of selfknowledge, and of spirituality equally rare, and being thoroughly instructed how he ought to behave himself in the church of God-the church of the living God-the pillar and ground of the truth,” Mr. Martyn prepared for the solemn rite of his ordination, which was administered at Ely, on Sunday, October 22, 1803: "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and he may dwell in thy courts;" Psalm Ixv. 4. The exercise of his pastoral function, Mr. Martyn commenced, as curate to the Rev. C. Simeon, in the church of the Holy Trinity, in Cambridge; undertaking likewise the charge of the parish of Lolworth, a small village at no great distance from the university; and on Thursday, November 10, he preached for the first time at Trinity Church, to a numerous and earnestly attentive con-→ gregation. In the early part of the year 1804, Mr. Martyn's expectations of becom ing a missionary were considerably damped, by the very trying event of his losing all his slender patrimony; a loss rendered more severe to him by the circumstance of his youngest sister being involved in the same calamity. The situation of a chaplain to the East India Company, had long appeared to many of those who took a lively interest in his welfare and his work, to be peculiarly eligible, as offering singular facilities for missionary exertions amongst millions of idolaters. Insuperable obstacles, however, interfered with this arrange ment, and a veil was thus cast over his future proceedings." In the interval which passed between the months of February and June, he was found actively labouring in the service of his divine Master. He preached animating and awakening discourses: he excited societies of private Christians to "watch, quit themselves like men, and be strong;" he visited many of the poor, the afflicted, and the dying: he warned numbers of the careless and profligate-in a 66 |